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The Science of Brickmaking

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The Science of Brickmaking

George Frederick Harris

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A humble brick begins as river mud, and George Harris tells its whole geology. His science of brickmaking traces the fluviatile, lacustrine, and marine brick-earths and the minerals that compose them. Technical, systematic, and grounded in the ground itself. A study of the earth that becomes the walls of cities. Discover the geology hiding in every brick. Note: an industrial and geological treatise on brick-earths.

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34 chapters

  1. 1THE SCIENCE OF BRICKMAKING
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4THE SCIENCE OF BRICKMAKING.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. FLUVIATILE BRICK-EARTHS.
  6. 6CHAPTER II. LACUSTRINE AND FLUVIATILE BRICK-EARTHS.
  7. 7CHAPTER III. MARINE BRICK-EARTHS.
  8. 8CHAPTER IV. THE MINERAL CONSTITUTION OF BRICK-EARTHS.
  9. 9KAOLIN.
  10. 10FELSPAR.
  11. 11CHAPTER V. MINERALS: THEIR BEHAVIOUR IN THE KILN.
  12. 12THE SILICA GROUP.
  13. 13MICA.
  14. 14IRON.
  15. 15CHAPTER VI. MINERALS: THEIR BEHAVIOUR IN THE KILN (continued).
  16. 16CALCITE, ARAGONITE, c.
  17. 17SELENITE.
  18. 18DOLOMITE.

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